Author

Books by Tracy Kidder

Tracy Kidder is an American journalist and author who is one of the leading practitioners of literary nonfiction. His earlier book The Soul of a New Machine won both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award in 1982. He has written about home construction, education, aging, and global medicine with equal depth and care. Mountains Beyond Mountains, published in 2003, was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and is widely used in medical school and public health curricula. He has continued to follow Paul Farmer's work in subsequent journalism.